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Jamie Maguire works alongside a lab assistant at Tufts in 2013

New Hope for Postpartum Depression

For women with postpartum depression—by some estimates, nearly one in five new mothers—the recent announcement of positive results in clinical trials of a drug to help alleviate their symptoms was welcome news.
Bree Aldridge and her team

Taking on TB

Bree Aldridge is no traditional microbiologist—she’s a bioengineer by training, with talents for intense computational modeling and mathematics that have already helped her break at least one new paradigm in the TB field.
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A Cancer Clue?

Researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine, led by Dominique Michaud, professor of public health and community medicine, have found a positive association between severe gum disease and an increased risk of cancer.
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